Angel Card

This angel is from the TAC set, Just Dreamy. I stamped her with Brilliance ink and colored her with a mixture of Sharpies and Copics. I used the Sharpies rather than my Prisma markers because of the size of the tip. The ultra fine point on the Sharpie worked a little better for coloring in the small area of her socks. The card base is from DCWV's spring card pack. I had the coordinating cardstock to use behind the image. The black paper is from Making Memories and the brads are from Paper Studio. Her wings are colored with a Gelly Roll glitter pen.

I was so excited when I got home, my first Angel Company order had arrived! I have a couple of new things to play with, including the Just Dreamy set I used for this card.

Tomorrow night is our Card Making night at church, hope to see you all there!

Yellow Daisy

This is another flower from the TAC set, Friendship flowers. The design paper and cardstock are from DCWV. The scalloped edge is made with my Fiskars Threading water border punch. I am in love with scallops right now. I have seen several things in the gallery at SCS made with this punch and have heard several people say how hard it was to find. I was in HL one day as they were just putting them out and so I grabbed one. This is the first card I have made with it though. I picked up the ribbon at Big Lots, a huge roll for only a dollar! I decided to play with the Liquid Applique that has been in my drawer for while. I have used it to make snow and that's about it. I was trying to come up with another use for it. It looks better IRL, here it looks a bit squished or something. I think this is the card we are going to use for our workshop at church this Friday night, but we will probably color the flower instead. I may change it up a little bit before I decide on the final project.

We went and saw the new Batman movie at the IMAX theater tonight. Wow. It was a good movie. Very intense, no dull moments at all. It was Kip's third time to see it. He went on opening day, then while we were in Gatlinburg, he, my Dad and my nephew went to see it and then again tonight. We split up on movie night, the girls went and saw Mama Mia! That was a great movie!

Happy Birthday Zoie

My niece turned 10 last weekend and to celebrate we met my parents in Gatlinburg and they brought along my niece and nephew. We had a great time, but I am exhausted. This was the card that I made for Zoie. Since she has an unusual spelling for her name, she can never find anything that is personalized so I stamped background paper using her name and added some pink cardstock from DCWV. The letters spelling out her name are from CTMH Solo letter sets. I just randomly stamped her name using CTMH Bubblegum ink. The darling pigs and the Happy Birthday are from the CTMH set, Nursery Bash. I think they are just too cute. I colored the image with Koh-I-Nor pencils and used OMS to blend and shade. The cupcakes, I colored and then topped with Doddlebug glitter in pink, purple and green. The bling are rhinestones that I picked up at Target in the dollar area. When she opened it so said she loved the diamonds on there!

We had so much fun on our weekend away, but the most fun was of course going to Your Scrapbook Superstore. It is so overwhelming to go in there, if I had the money, I think I could have easily spent a thousand dollars. I don't even know where to begin! They carry so many things that I can normally only see online, and it is all right there to see and touch. It also begs to be taken home with me! I was good though. I bought a punch and a couple of small See D stamps sets, plus a few other odds and ends. I didn't find that much in the Clearance Store this time but I did manage to find a few things there too. Thanks for stopping by!

Jenna's Party Invitations

So, even though Jenna is having a pool party as part of her birthday Slumber Party, invitations with the pool theme weren't saying "birthday party" to her. I was thinking more along the lines of pool party and she was definitely thinking Birthday Party. Turing nine is a big deal! So I let her pick from all my stamp sets and she wanted a Riley image. Not the one in water, not the one in the hula skirt, not water skiing, although she likes them a lot, they still weren't saying birthday. Then she finally told me that to be a birthday it had to have a cake or something on it. So I grabbed this one and immediately she said "I want that one". We colored the cake with different shade of pink with Prisma Markers and covered the little heart on top with pink Doodlebug glitter. Yes, Riley's ears are sparkling with his/her pink rhinestone earrings! Pink and green are her favorite colors so she was very happy with this pink and green paper we found in my stash, I think it is from a summer pack of DCWV. The paper flowers are Making Memories I believe and the brads are from Paper Studio. The sentiment is from a Fiskers Party stamp set. Hanna stamps, Riley: $3.99, ink:$5.00, paper $1.00. Getting the stamp of approval from a very happy, almost nine year old: absolutely priceless.

We are headed to Gatlinburg for the weekend and will be back on Monday evening. Have a great weekend!

Wishing I was on the Beach!

I cannot remember where I saw the idea that I CASED this card from. I do remember that it was a magazine that I ended up not buying though. I had been playing with ideas to make sand, I stamped several different pieces of paper with lots of colors of browns and every technique that I could think of and I was happy with none of them. I even tried real sand mixed with Glossy Accents. That ended up looking like a blob which was not the look I was going for. Then one day we were at Books A Million and I was glancing through magazines and saw the idea for using sandpaper. Brilliant! I decided to use my Cuttlebug swirly embossing folder because it looks a little like water. This DCWV cardstock has a white core so I gently brushed over the raised image with sandpaper to expose a little more of the white. I then used a Palette glue pad over the water area and attached white glitter. The stamps come from three different stamp sets: the umbrella is from a Hanna Stamps set and colored with Prisma Markers. The bucket and shovel are from a Provo Craft set and the flip flops are from CTMH 's On the Beach set. I was going to use this as a birthday party invitation for a nine year old, but she decided on something else, because this just didn't say birthday to her! That's okay, she picked out something really cute and I will post her party invitations tomorrow. Have a great night!

Camping Riley

I am having some camera issue this evening and this was the best picture I could get with my temperamental camera. I have such a small amount of patience with electronic things. They were made to do a job and when they decide not to do it, I get a little upset! This was the lightest picture I could get. Fortunately I have much more patience with people.

Onto the card now. Here we have Riley going camping, I think he is so cute. I love all the Hanna Stamps sets but especially the Riley images. I colored him with Prisma Markers. I have been trying to work with shading a little more lately. I think I did an okay job shading around his nose area, but can definately use some mre practice. It is easier for me to shade with the Prismacolor pencils but I really love coloring with markers. I used some kraft paper (source unknown) for the base of the card. The green cardstock is from DCWV and brads are from Jo-Ann's. See you Thursday!

Experiment

I have been wanting to try stitching on paper. I am not patient enough to get out my sewing machine and learn how to use it, just to stitch across a card! The last time I was in my LSS I saw these cute template by Bazzill. I got the Girly Girl set. Evidently there is a tool that you can get that works with these templates but they were out of stock. I tried using my paper piercer to make the holes from the template, but the holes were too small for my needle to pass through. So, fortunately my LSS also had this paper, also from Bazzill that already had the holes in it! I gave up on the other template until I can get some medium size needles. I have the big needles that I got when I got the templates and I have small needles that I cross stitch with. The problem with the smaller needles was that I couldn't get enough thread through the eye to get the look I was wanting. So, stay tuned to see if I can make it work!

Look at these colors! I was definitely experimenting today! I was reading in Paper Crafts magazine that grey is a hot color right now. This was one of the color combinations that they used with grey. Yellow is my favorite color so I added lots of that! The black and grey cardstocks are from Making Memories. The brads are from Joann's and the floss is DMC that I had from another project. IRL the grey is a little lighter than it appears here. Have a good night, TFL.

Welcome Little One

Hi, thanks for stopping by today. I survived yesterday and managed to learn all thirteen songs that I needed. Due to time, a couple of them got cut, including the one that I was the most nervous about. It has been a busy weekend, today we went back to the Viking Store for cooking lessons. My first lesson was a birthday gift from a friend, but I signed Kip and me up for this one. We learned how to make sushi! It was another fun class. We ate so much sushi though, I was so full when we left. It was a great time.

This card was made with the CTMH Flower Child stamp set. The sentiment is from Clear Dollar Stamps and reads "welcome little one". I stamped it onto white paper and colored it with Prisma markers. I cut out the images and used dimensionals to attach them to the pink squares. The paper I used is from Making Memories. The squares and the pink strip are the reverse of the patterned paper. The ink is CTMH Orchid Bouquet. This was a pretty simple card to make. Have a great day.

Hats Off

I made this card with The Angel Company set Hats Off. There are several images of these cute little girls wearing hats. The image is stamped using Brilliance ink and colored with Prisma markers. Usually I pick out paper or a color palette before I color an image, but this one I stamped and colored at our workshop we had last week. So I matched paper to the marker colors I used. These papers were from a DCWV fall stack. I used square and round Nestabilites to cut and emboss the cardstock. The little beads are the pretend dew drops from Micheal's floral area. I stamped the sentiment that came with the set using CTMH Cranberry ink. Normally I wait to stamp a sentiment until I am ready to send a card because so many can be used for different purposes. Since this one is about friendship it could be for a birthday, get well, thank you or just a thinking of you card. Happy weekend to everyone!

Another Thank You

I needed another quick thank you card and came up with this one. The stamp is from the CTMH set, Celebrating Life. I stamped it three times and colored in the flowers with my Prisma markers. For the center of the flowers I used Doodlebug glitter. The blue of the glitter matches the blue of the paper almost perfectly. IRL the paper is a little more blue, here is looks more green. This paper, I believe is from My Mind's Eye and the cardstock behind the flowers is DCWV. Lately I have really enjoyed working with polka dots and bright pink paper. I have always kind of preferred softer, more muted colors but I have made several cards over the past couple of weeks using brighter colors. Thanks for stopping by tonight!